StoryMakers with Polly Horvath LIBRARY GIRL
If you are a fan of books or libraries, boy do we have a StoryMakers episode for you! Join Rocco and Newbery Honor author Polly Horvath as they chat about the inspiration behind her new middle grade novel, LIBRARY GIRL. It's about a girl raised in a public library in secret by the four librarians who found her abandoned as a baby in the children’s section! Find out more about Polly's own relationship with libraries and have fun pairing foods with books!
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About Polly Horvath
Polly Horvath has written many books for children and young adults. She has won numerous awards including a National Book Award, Newbery Honor, Toronto Dominion Award, International White Raven, Canadian Library Association's Young Adult Book of the Year, short-listed for Germany's most prestigious literature award, the Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis, the Writer's Trust Vicky Metcalfe Award for her body of work, and many others.
Her books have been New York Times and Publishers Weekly bestsellers and Rosie O'Donell and Oprah picks. She is translated into over twenty-five languages and her books are taught in children's literature curricula in North America and internationally.
Polly Horvath grew up in Kalamazoo, Michigan. She now lives in Metchosin, British Columbia and is both an American and a Canadian citizen. She is married and has two daughters.
Her books have received international recognition. Publishers Weekly has called her work “unruly, unpredictable and utterly compelling.”
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